Cannabis Use and Mental Health Problems

Jan C. van Ours & Jenny Williams
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Jenny Williams

No 1073, Department of Economics - Working Papers Series from The University of Melbourne

Abstract: This paper investigates whether cannabis use leads to worse mental health. To do so, we account for common unobserved factors a ecting mental health and cannabis consumption by modeling mental health jointly with the dynamics of cannabis use. Our main nding is that using cannabis increases the likelihood of mental health problems, with current use having a larger e ect than past use. The estimates suggest a dose response relationship between the frequency of recent cannabis use and the probability of currently experiencing a mental health problem.

Keywords: cannabis use; mental health; duration models; discrete factor models (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 D12 I19 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 2009
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